Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
50 pending office actions • 3 clients • 47 examiners • 24 art units • 0 of 50 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 308 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 8 (16%) |
| §101 + other | 16 (32%) |
| §103 only | 15 (30%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (20%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 2 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 2 | 77.8% | +13.0% |
| ULLAH, ARIF | 2 | 47.5% | +36.7% |
| SOMERS, MARC S | 1 | 65.0% | +34.4% |
| GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON | 1 | 21.9% | +28.2% |
| FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 1 | 51.9% | +38.4% |
| HOANG, HAU HAI | 1 | 78.2% | +13.4% |
| MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO | 1 | 49.7% | +20.0% |
| LE, THUYKHANH | 1 | 78.2% | +35.1% |
| CIVAN, ETHAN D | 1 | 68.6% | +28.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18430043 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC ITEM RECOMMENDATION | BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD | 56d overdue |
| 18490371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRODUCT PRICE ADJUSTMENTS | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 17d overdue |
| 19088241 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING INFORMATION ITEMS FOR FULFILLMENT-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES | HOANG, HAU HAI | 10d overdue |
| 18820794 | GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE ITEM RANKING | WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 4d overdue |
| 18673692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GUIDE A NEEDLE | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 2d overdue |
| 19231808 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AGGREGATED REVIEWS | GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON | 14d |
| 18451174 | BIODEGRADABLE RADIOPAQUE MICROSPHERE | MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 14d |
| 18428989 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON DUAL MODELS | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 20d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088241 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING INFORMATION ITEMS FOR FULFILLMENT-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES | HOANG, HAU HAI | 10d overdue |
| 19231808 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AGGREGATED REVIEWS | GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON | 14d |
| 18467990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITEM-SELLER RECOMMENDATION FOR ASSORTMENT GROWTH | ULLAH, ARIF | 26d |
| 19228543 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 28d |
| 19292526 | PROVIDING RECOMMENDED IMAGE DATA | SOMERS, MARC S | — |
| 19051796 | CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT ITEM SELECTION | MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO | — |
| 19027645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATED GENERATION OF THEME-AWARE KEYWORDS FOR AN ITEM | LE, THUYKHANH | — |
| 19025793 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERSATION BASED PRODUCT SEARCH | CIVAN, ETHAN D | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Walmart | 32 |
| Varian Inc. | 17 |
| Siemens Healthineers | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 12 |
| 3625 | 5 |
| 3689 | 4 |
| 2159 | 2 |
| 2154 | 2 |
| 2884 | 2 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19292526 | PROVIDING RECOMMENDED IMAGE DATA | Walmart Apollo, LLC | SOMERS, MARC S | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19231808 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AGGREGATED REVIEWS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON | 3628 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19228543 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Walmart Apollo, LLC | FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 2153 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19088241 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING INFORMATION ITEMS FOR FULFILLMENT-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES | Walmart Apollo, LLC | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19051796 | CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT ITEM SELECTION | Walmart Apollo, LLC | MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO | 2159 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19027645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATED GENERATION OF THEME-AWARE KEYWORDS FOR AN ITEM | Walmart Apollo, LLC | LE, THUYKHANH | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 | |
| 19025793 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERSATION BASED PRODUCT SEARCH | Walmart Apollo, LLC | CIVAN, ETHAN D | 3687 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025836 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING INFORMATION ITEMS FOR THIRD-PARTY PRESENTATION | Walmart Apollo, LLC | GARG, YOGESH C | 3688 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19026265 | DETERMINING SIMILAR ITEMS USING GROUPED IMAGES | Walmart Apollo, LLC | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 19025759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONA-BASED MIXED CROSS ITEM TYPE RECOMMENDATIONS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | LOHARIKAR, ANAND R | 3689 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19014715 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COHESIVE PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION SETS AND VARIANTS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | MITROS, ANNA MAE | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19006675 | CRYOABLATION PROBE WITH INTEGRATED VACUUM SLEEVE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18820794 | GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE ITEM RANKING | Walmart Apollo, LLC | WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 2156 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18800871 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CRYO-BASED ANESTHESIA | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18778666 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE WITH INTEGRATED TEMPERATURE SENSORS | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18778462 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AT ABLATION PROBE HANDLE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18778517 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE TIP WITH CENTERING TUBE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18778579 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE COOLANT CONDUIT | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18769676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORECASTING SALES DATA OF NEW STORE ITEMS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | JARRETT, SCOTT L | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18673692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GUIDE A NEEDLE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 3792 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18674162 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENTS USING SUPER ELASTICITY | Walmart Apollo, LLC | TO, BAOQUOC N | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 | |
| 18630012 | IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Siemens Healthineers International AG | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18694293 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADIOABLATION TREATMENT AREA TARGETING AND GUIDANCE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | LAM, ANDREW H | 2682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18430043 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC ITEM RECOMMENDATION | Walmart Apollo, LLC | BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD | 3621 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18429128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIAMESE WIDE AND DEEP NEURAL NETWORK RANKING | Walmart Apollo, LLC | BATTINA, RAAJITA | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 | |
| 18428989 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON DUAL MODELS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 3689 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18429182 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEXT-BEST ACTION USING A MULTI-OBJECTIVE REWARD BASED SEQUENTIAL FRAMEWORK | Walmart Apollo, LLC | JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 | |
| 18427702 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING BUFFER RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS IN A TARGET NETWORK | Walmart Apollo, LLC | WALKER, MICHAEL JARED | 3627 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18393789 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR TARGETED VAPORIZATION OF CRYOGEN | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18523762 | COOLANT STATUS MONITORING FOR MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18490648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRODUCT ALLOCATION IN RESPONSE TO MARKET VARIATIONS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | ULLAH, ARIF | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18490371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRODUCT PRICE ADJUSTMENTS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18489249 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SUBSTITUTES USING LEARNING-TO-RANK | Walmart Apollo, LLC | CHOWDHURY, SUMAIR RASHED | 4100 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18477347 | CONSOLE ARCHITECTURE FOR MICROWAVE ABLATION UNIT | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18477374 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE ASSEMBLY AND CABLE STRUCTURE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18473504 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF NON-COMPLIANT ELEMENTS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | HALE, BROOKS T | 2166 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18467990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITEM-SELLER RECOMMENDATION FOR ASSORTMENT GROWTH | Walmart Apollo, LLC | ULLAH, ARIF | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18451174 | BIODEGRADABLE RADIOPAQUE MICROSPHERE | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18357892 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT USING IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES VIA COMPUTER VISION | Walmart Apollo, LLC | ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE | 2673 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18353260 | RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY FOR MOVING TARGETS IN THE HEART | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18317696 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFICATION OF SUBSTANCE CONCENTRATION IN BODY STRUCTURES USING SPECTRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | DICKINSON, PAUL W | 1618 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18025230 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AUTOMATICALLY PREDICTING FILL RATES | Walmart Apollo, LLC | RINES, ROBERT D | 3625 | §112 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18072155 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOISE-RESISTANT COMPLEMENTARY ITEM RECOMMENDATION | Walmart Apollo, LLC | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 3689 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17655204 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEQUENTIAL HEATING OF CRYO-FLUID IN CRYOABLATION SYSTEMS | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 3794 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17655218 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING BLEEDING DURING CRYOABLATION TREATMENTS | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17677839 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA IMPUTATION OF A SPARSE TIME SERIES DATA SET | Walmart Apollo, LLC | PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH | 2121 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2022 |
| 17587061 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC ITEM DEMAND AND SUBSTITUTION PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING PROCESSES | Walmart Apollo, LLC | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2022 |
| 17647283 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING A USER CONVERSION EVENT | Walmart Apollo, LLC | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 3623 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2022 |
| 17378581 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING HYPERPARAMETER SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY | Walmart Apollo, LLC | NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD | 2124 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 16, 2021 |
| 17246179 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ITEM RANKINGS | Walmart Apollo, LLC | GORNEY, BORIS | 2154 | §103 | Final Rejection | 175d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2021 |
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